The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Utah
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Utah Code sections 26-1-30 and 26A-1-114(1)(b) (cross-referenced in the section itself)
- Issued
- 2015-05-12 May 12, 2015
- Effective
- 2015-05-12
- End
- standing (this version superseded May 5, 2021 by S.B. 195's order-of-constraint amendments) (read as 2021-05-05)
- In force
- Standing since May 12, 2015 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Quarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally (individuals and groups of individuals subject to restriction); premises subject to restriction; employers whose employees are cases, contacts or household members (the UDOH orders of April 1 and April 14, 2020, Exs. UT-005, UT-010, made compliance with isolation and quarantine notices mandatory for every case, contact and household member)
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Utah DUT-UT
Operative words
The department having jurisdiction over the location where an individual or a group of individuals who are subject to restriction are found may: (a) issue a written order of restriction for the individual or group of individuals pursuant to Section 26-1-30 or Subsection 26A-1-114(1)(b) upon compliance with the requirements of this chapter; and (b) issue a verbal order of restriction
Penalty
Utah Code section 26-23-6 (Ex. DUT-UT-003); section 26A-1-123 (Ex. DUT-UT-005); judicial enforcement under sections 26-6b-4 to 26-6b-7
What it required
The Department of Health or a local health department could restrict 'an individual or a group of individuals' to examination, treatment, isolation or quarantine by written order, or by verbal order without prior notice where delay 'would significantly jeopardize the department's ability to prevent or limit... the transmission of a communicable or possibly communicable disease' (subsection (2)(c)); the written order identifies 'any premises that may be subject to restriction' (section 26-6b-3.3(1)(b), read on the Legislature's site). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteOfficial versioned PDF (header: 'Effective 5/12/2015 Superseded 5/5/2021'). Ex. UT-005 sec. 1(c) recites that 'An isolation or quarantine order issued pursuant to Utah Code Title 26, Chapter 6 or 6b' governs the individuals it names.